Community Newspaper Company

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Community Newspaper Co.

Company type	Division of publicly held company
Industry	Publishing
Founded	January 1991 (1991-01)
Defunct	2011 (2011)
Headquarters	254 Second Avenue, Needham, Massachusetts 02494, United States
Area served	Eastern Massachusetts
Products	Daily and weekly newspapers
Parent	Gannett
Divisions	Cape, Metro, North, Northwest, South, West
Website	WickedLocal.com

Community Newspaper Company, or CNC, was the largest publisher of weekly newspapers in eastern Massachusetts in the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century. It also published several daily newspapers in Greater Boston.

The company's properties were assembled by Fidelity Investments in the 1980s; Fidelity founded the company and then sold it to the Boston Herald in 2001. Five years later, the chain was purchased by, and immediately became the largest single component of, GateHouse Media. GateHouse gradually phased out CNC branding in favor of "WickedLocal.com", the company's website, and GateHouse Media New England; this process was complete by 2011, when staff email addresses dropped the "@cnc.com" domain.^[1]